What is vbw:uninstall?

A removal command for VBW, a set of project and system customisations. It checks configuration files and removes VBW settings while leaving unrelated settings alone.

Use it before removing the VBW plugin. It can inspect and clean the VBW status line, agent-team setting, planning directory, and project instructions after confirmation.

It helps clean up VBW before uninstalling it, reducing the chance of leftover status bars, environment settings, or project files causing confusion.

vbw:uninstall — Command for Claude Code by swt-labs

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw

Claude Code

/plugin install vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks.

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README.md

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 600 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00020	$0.00600
Opus 5	$0.00010	$0.00300
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00120
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00060

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4ecadd329574, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

vbw:uninstall scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

If `.vbw-planning/` exists: ask keep (recommended) or delete. Delete: `rm -rf .vbw-planning/`.

commands/uninstall.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

VBW Uninstall

Context

Settings:

!`for _d in "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-}" "$HOME/.config/claude-code" "$HOME/.claude"; do [ -z "$_d" ] && continue; [ -f "$_d/settings.json" ] && cat "$_d/settings.json" 2>/dev/null && break; done || echo "{}"`

Planning dir:

!`ls -d .vbw-planning 2>/dev/null && echo "EXISTS" || echo "NONE"`

CLAUDE.md:

!`ls CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null && echo "EXISTS" || echo "NONE"`

Steps

Resolve config directory: Try in order: env var CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (if set and directory exists), ~/.config/claude-code (if exists), otherwise ~/.claude. Store result as CLAUDE_DIR.

Step 1: Confirm intent

Display Phase Banner "VBW Uninstall" explaining system-level config removal. Project files handled separately. Ask confirmation.

Step 2: Clean statusLine

Read CLAUDE_DIR/settings.json. If statusLine contains vbw-statusline: remove entire statusLine key, display ✓. If not VBW's: "○ Statusline is not VBW's — skipped".

Step 3: Clean Agent Teams env var

If env.CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS exists: ask user (it's a Claude Code feature other tools may use). Approved: remove (if env then empty, remove env key). Declined: "○ Agent Teams setting kept".

Step 4: Project data

If .vbw-planning/ exists: ask keep (recommended) or delete. Delete: rm -rf .vbw-planning/.

Step 5: CLAUDE.md cleanup

If CLAUDE.md exists: ask keep or delete.

Step 6: Summary

Display Phase Banner "VBW Cleanup Complete" with ✓/○ per step. Then:

➜ Final Step
  /plugin uninstall vbw@vbw-marketplace
  Then optionally: /plugin marketplace remove vbw-marketplace

Do NOT run plugin uninstall yourself — it would remove itself mid-execution.

Output Format

Follow @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/vbw-brand-essentials.md — Phase Banner (double-line box), ✓ completed, ○ skipped, Next Up, no ANSI.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

9d ago First seen · 64 lines · 20 tokens per session scan C 4ecadd329574

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vbw:uninstall is a command published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (79 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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